ICYMI: Our Top Provider-Focused Blogs of 2016

Posted by Mikelle D. Smith, DCoE Public Affairs on January 3, 2017

It’s not always easy to stay on top of the news, particularly when you work in the busy field of health care. In case you missed any of our provider-focused stories covered this year, we’ve compiled a list for you.

This blog from the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center dives into the new headache clinical suite titled “Management of Headache Following Concussion/Mild TBI: Guidance for Primary Care Management in Deployed and Non-Deployed Settings.” The suite includes an easy-to-use guide for recognizing headache types, including tension-type and migraine.

This webinar rewind focuses on the important issue of preventing sexual abuse in children. The article, targeted at providers, highlights four topical areas: reducing the motivation to abuse in potential offenders, strengthening potential offenders’ inhibitions against abuse, making it harder for potential offenders to get access to kids and helping children be more resistant to abusive overtures.

A review of a presentation from this year’s DCoE Summit on a multidisciplinary treatment approach for service members coping with the effects of TBI. The Fort Hood Intensive Outpatient Program helps service members who deployed to combat zones or experienced sexual assault in the military reduce symptoms of TBI.

This webinar rewind addresses the importance of validating study methods before accepting results of research. It explains how a non-inferiority study aims to determine whether a new form of treatment is worse than the current standard of treatment, and if so that it isn’t unacceptably worse.

Dr. Kate McGraw, psychologist and deputy director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center, talks about changes in the Defense Department regarding women in combat. She outlines the hard work of more than 90 policy makers, researchers and service members who examined women-in-combat issues related to fitness and health, operational, environmental, community and cultural factors.

An expert from the National Center for Telehealth and Technology shares with providers the importance of setting boundaries with patients regarding contact through social media. Maintaining a professional relationship with patients requires a certain level of privacy. This article offers ideas for crafting official statements that show your desire to stay professional online.

In this “Clinician’s Corner” blog, professionals talk about how the Real Warriors website supports psychological health care. The website encourages service members and veterans coping with mental health concerns to reach out for appropriate care or support and offers resources that help reduce misperceptions about psychological health concerns.

This list is only a sampling of the articles DCoE offers on psychological health and TBI. You can subscribe to our email alerts for the latest information on DCoE news articles, blogs and upcoming webinars.

We care about you and your interests. As we consider article ideas for 2017, we want to hear from you! Please comment below to let us know what you are most interested in reading in 2017.

Comments (3)

AdrithJan. 8, 2017

I signed up to donate my brain for study and research. I can not find the paper work. Can you please get me a way to get in contact with this department. I have TBI with a 100% rating with the VA.
Thank you for any help you can provide ,

1. Setting up Peer Support Groups for active duty personnel on all posts, bases and naval vessels so that our men and women can be introduced to wellness through recovery, action and planning processes that are not interfered with envious commanders and deputy commanders who have had many men and women who were officers and enlisted members to dishonorably discharged which prevented them from receiving care from the VA Healthcare Facilities.

2. Training medics and corpsmen to be Certified Peer Specialists to steer the Peer Support Groups overseen by Military Officer Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Workers.

3. Providing pathways for dependent spouses of military personnel and their children to attend peer support groups so harmony can be re-established within their homes that lessens the worries of the active duty personnel when they are send out to combat zones or other isolated military stations around the world.

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